Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-03-09
cotton to the exclusion of other crops. Why
don't they consider good living first, and
then the cotton ANON.
INTERPRETATION,

On Friday morning band of over two
hundred armed men appeared before the
iail of San Marcos, Texas, and took there
from colored boy charged with assaulting
lady and hanged him to tree. Gov.
ernor Taylor, of Tennessee, has announced
his intention to pardon all convicts in the
peniteEtiary who are under fifteen years OF
age. .'''''''A serious shooting affray occurred
on Sunday of last week at Coronado, Wlch-
ita county, Kansas, between citizens of that
town and of the town of LeOti, as to which
place should be the county seat. Two
persons were killed and several wound
ed. ''''''.'N. o. Shelnutt, of Jackson, Georgia,
was hanged three times by mob in Janu-
ary last, and still lives to tell the tale. He
says that it is great mistake to think that
death by hanging is painful. '"There is no
pain about it," he says, land man can die
mighty easy. ".''..."'ln suit brought by
the knights of Honor against Robert j.
Breckenridge, of Louisville, Ky, for $685.
900, deficit while he was treasurer of the
order, the court gave judgment against
the defendant for $25,000. Isc:'"'No rains
have fallen in Crawford county, Kansas, for
sixteen months, it is stated, and water sells
there for forty cents barrel. .'''''''"Capt. A.
w. Greedy, of Arctic fame, has been con-
firmed as chief signal officer with the rank
of brigadier general. .'.'''''''The business fail
ures reported in the United States last week
numbered 203. .'''."A heavy sleet and snow
storm occurred in Northern Virginia last
Friday, and the weather was intensely
cold. '.':.'.'' Kentucky has full Prohibition
State ticket in the field, fifty counties hav-
ing been represented in the nominating
convention. Fontaine J. Fox, promi-
nent lawyer of Louisville, heads the tick
ct. .'':'.< Many of the Apaches in Arizona
have made 81 day through the season as
farm laborers. $50. ".3GWilliam S. Martin, an
old citizen of Pittsburg, who died week
ago, predicted the exact hour of his
death. ''''.''Ruth Harmon, grandmother of
Mrs. Cleveland, died at her home in Jack
son, n. Y, yesterday morning. .''''''"'There
was heavy snow storm all Saturday night
throughout New England and the railroads
are ali blocked again" .":.-Ssdlrs. Jane Wash
ington Thornton Beck wife of Senator
Beck, of Kentucky, died at her residence
in Washington, D. c., last Sunday evening.
She was grand niece of George Washing
ton. .'.''''."Governor Wilson, of West Virgin
ia, has issued his proclamation to-day recon-
vening the Legislature of that State on the
third Wednesday of April next. .'...''"The
last distillery in Iowa is to be closed because
of the Prohibition law. .''''''"''Owing to the
dispute about the election of Lieutenant
Governor, the Indiana Legislature is likely
to adjourn without accomplishing any legis-
| lation whatever. ....'.".'In a case appealed
| from Tennessee, involving the right of one
State to impose license tax upon drum.
mers or travelling salesmen, the United
States Supreme Court, on Monday last, rem
dered decision to the effect that such tax
alton is an interference with Interstate
commerce, and, is therefore, unconstitu-
tiOna1